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Schelotto & Padula Academy Hosting Tryouts

By: Adam Jardy

The Columbus Dispatch - May 24, 2012 10:37 PM

Tryouts will start next week for youngsters hoping to suit up for the Schelotto & Padula
Soccer Academy this year. The Columbus-based academy, founded by former Crew players Guillermo
Barros Schelotto and Gino Padula, is accepting applications for its 2012-13 league teams.

Now in its second season, the academy has become Padula’s primary passion.

“We’ve had very good feedback from the winter and spring,” he said. “We try to provide good
sessions. We are honest and we don’t promise anything to anybody. We only promise good training and
try to play in good tournaments.”

Tryouts for levels U-8 through U-10 will take place May 29 and 31; levels U-11 and U-12 from May
30-31; U-13 through U-15 on June 4 and 6 and U-16 through U-18 on June 5 and 7. All sessions will
take place at Headley Park in Gahanna.

All the important details including cost, hours and information on how to preregister, can be
found at the academy’s website
here.

Teams from age 11 and up will play in the Buckeye Premier League as well as in tournaments,
while the younger teams will participate in tournaments throughout the year.

“We would like to become one of the most important academies in Columbus,” Padula said.